8th November 2001

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Professor Mari Fitzduff, Director of INCORE, the United Nations University Institute for Conflict Resolution at the University has been appointed to the Council of the prestigious peace centre at Emory University, founded by former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter.

The Board is made up of 20 eminent actors on the stage of world politics, conflict resolution and academia, and Professor Fitzduff will be working alongside Lord David Owen, Mrs Sadako Ogata and Sir Kieran Prendergast, as well as a number of prominent UN officials, including Assistant Secretary General Angela King and Dame Margaret Anstee of UNDP.

The Carter Center was founded almost 20 years ago to reduce conflict and to alleviate suffering in the world, and with their many partners have been fighting famine, disease and poverty.

Professor Fitzduff, who will travel this week to Atlanta to work with other Council members on addressing the future work and development of the centre says: “This meeting comes at a crucial time in US history, when many Americans are still reeling in shock at their vulnerability to terrorism, and trying to come to terms with how their fate is so intimately connected with conflicts elsewhere such as the Middle East. Centres like INCORE, and the Carter Centre, whose work has for many years focusing on such conflicts have a great deal to learn and share with each other, and there could be no better time than the present for doing so.”

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